Bis zu 50 % günstiger als neu 3 Jahre rebuy Garantie Professionelles Refurbishment

The Power of Gold. The History of an Obsession

Handgeprüfte Gebrauchtware

Bis zu 50 % günstiger als neu

Der Umwelt zuliebe

Nur 5,52 € und

Gratisversand mit dem 15 % Rabattcode

The Power of Gold. The History of an Obsession

Peter L. Bernstein (Gebundene Ausgabe, Englisch)

Keine Bewertungen vorhanden

Optischer Zustand

Sehr guter Zustand: leichte Gebrauchsspuren vorhanden
z.B. mit vereinzelten Knicken, Markierungen oder mit Gebrauchsspuren am Cover
Gut als Geschenk geeignet

Beschreibung

In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the modern convulsions caused by the gold standard and its aftermath, gold has led many of its most eager and proud possessors to a bad end. Gold had them, rather than the other way around. And while the same cycle of obsession and desperation may reverberate in today's fast-moving, electronically-driven stock markets, the role of gold in shaping human history is the striking feature of this tumultuous tale. Such is the power of gold. This fascinating account begins with the magical, religious, and artistic qualities of gold and progresses to the invention of coinage, the transformation of gold into money, and the gold standard. The more important gold becomes as money, the more loudly it speaks of power--even more loudly than when it served as an entry to Heaven or a symbol of omnipotence. Ultimately, the book confronts the future of gold in a world where it appears to have been relegated to the periphery of global finance. From the Bible to the Gold Rush era to modern day Fort Knox and beyond, unforgettable characters stride through these pages. Contemplate gold from the diverse perspectives of monarchs and moneyers, potentates and politicians, men of legendary wealth and others of more plebeian beginnings; from Asia Minor's King Croesus to Rome's noted speculator Crassus, to Byzantine emperors and humble miners, Venice's Marco Polo and Spain's Francisco Pizarro, to Charlemagne and Charles de Gaulle, Richard I and Richard Nixon, Isaac Newton and Winston Churchill, Britain's economists David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, and Christopher Columbus and the Forty-Niners. Perhaps most remarkable are the frantic speculators who pushed gold to $850.00 an ounce in 1980 just as their counterparts twenty years later drove Internet stocks to exorbitant heights. Whether it is Egyptian pharaohs with depraved tastes, the luxury-mad survivors of the Black Death, the Chinese inventor of paper money, the pirates on the Spanish Main, or the hardnosed believers in the international gold standard like the United States' President Herbert Hoover, gold has been the supreme possession. It has been an icon for greed and an emblem of rectitude, as well as a vehicle for vanity and a badge of power that has shaped the destiny of humanity through the ages. As Bernstein muses, "The joke is that nothing is as useless and useful all at the same time." Far more than a tale of romantic myths, daring explorations, and the history of money and power struggles, The Power of Gold suggests that the true significance of this infamous element may lie in the timeless passions it continues to evoke, and what this reveals about ourselves. Weniger zeigen

6,49 €

Gebundene Ausgabe | Sehr gut

Nur 5,52 € und

Gratisversand mit dem 15 % Rabattcode

Nur noch 1 verfügbar!

Versandbereit in 1-2 Werktagen

zzgl.

Nur noch 1 verfügbar!

Versandbereit in 1-2 Werktagen

zzgl.

Handgeprüfte Gebrauchtware

Bis zu 50 % günstiger als neu

Der Umwelt zuliebe

Produktinformationen

Technische Daten

Erscheinungsdatum

01.01.2000

Sprache

Englisch

EAN

9780471252108

Herausgeber

John Wiley & Sons

Autor

Peter L. Bernstein

Seitenanzahl

432

Auflage

Einbandart

Gebundene Ausgabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The Supreme Possession. A METAL FOR ALL SEASONS. Get Gold at All Hazards. Midas's Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance. Darius's Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese. The Symbol and the Faith. Gold, Salt, and the Blessed Town. The Legacy of Eoba, Babba, and Udd. The Great Chain Reaction. The Disintegrating Age and the King's Ransoms. The Sacred Thirst. THE PATH TO TRIUMPH. The Fatal Poison and Private Money. The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung's Inadvertent Innovation. The Great Recoinage and the Last of the Magicians. The True Doctrine and the Great Evil. The New Mistress and the Cursed Discovery. The Badge of Honor. The Most Stupendous Conspiracy and the Endless Chain. THE DESCENT FROM GLORY. The Norman Conquest. The End of the Epoch. The Transcending Value. World War Eight and the Thirty Ounces of Gold. Epilogue: The Supreme Possession? Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Höhe

234 mm

Breite

15.9 cm

Warnhinweise und Sicherheitsinformationen

Informationen nach EU Data Act

Bewertungen

-.-

Leider noch keine Bewertungen

Sicher bei rebuy kaufen

Sehr Gut, 4.52/5.00

Aus 200.000+ Bewertungen

Schreib die erste Bewertung für dieses Produkt!

Wenn du eine Bewertung für dieses Produkt schreibst, hilfst du allen Kund:innen, die noch überlegen, ob sie das Produkt kaufen wollen. Vielen Dank, dass du mitmachst!